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First time I should charge to 100% which I did. For long time storage it should be 40 – 60% charged. Check every 3 – 6 months and recharge it slightly if the battery drops too low.

Probably shouldn’t store it in the garage inside. High temperatures are probably worse than freezing but just to be safe just keep it indoors.

https://www.thesolarlab.com/review/jackery-homepower-3600-plus

3.58 kWh

1500 W gives an estimated charge time from 0% of 2.8 H which is 4.2 kWh if it were consistent throughout which it won’t be

I tested it with the washing machine and it only went through about 3% of the charge. I think it maxed out at about 300W.

The space heater used about 1370 W and lasted about 2:15 or 2.25 hours to get from 94% to 0% which is 3.08 kWh approximately. I wasn’t watching it so the average could be higher.

1590 W for 2.25 hours is approximately 3.58 kWh.

Overall it seems good but the heater definitely consumes a lot more than the fridge probably would.

1.5 kWh is probably about right so a fridge could run four a couple days on just the battery. I’d like to test out the solar panel’s but for short term outages during the summer it probably wasn’t necessary. If we have multiple night outage like in the past in the winter requiring a space heater it won’t do much and we will need the gasoline generator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_horror

Once again, I still feel basically the same way about AI coding. It may be useful in the future but it doesn’t change my basic approach.

To me, the technology doesn’t require any immediate action on my part. It is still in its exploratory phase. One thing that keeps getting repeated is that if you don’t adopt it now you will be left behind. But if that’s truly the case there is no more room for new developers.

The biggest point of failure that I have seen is confirming that the results are correct. If an AI can produce easy to read unit tests and clean code that is easy to follow, it’s something that I can confirm is correct provided I am still willing to do some reading into the libraries in use. That is pretty much the same thing I do with human developers. AI is more prone to make mistakes that are unique to it and not humans. One thing is the creation of environment variables that sound probable but don’t actually exist. Another that can happen for human / generative AI is mistakingly using documentation on a different version of the library than the one you are actually on. This can happen in both but feels like it may be more common with AI. If you are starting fresh, you want to avoid using deprecated features but I feel like AI is very prone to ignore that entirely.

These are all criticisms that I consider to be pretty mild and probably aren’t impossible problems to solve, but I don’t feel like the hype around it is governed by reason and is instead a kind of technologic determinism that I don’t subscribe to. I’d actually be more willing to work with it if I felt I could be honest about what I felt the limitations were. I would first of all, have the AI agent as a separate user with very limited permissions. I’m not giving some AI access to my machine if it might delete files outside of specific repo directories. If it comments on PRs or Jira tickets it should also be it’s own user. If it commits, that should be its own user as well. I want to track how close it got to the final result without my help. I would want it to fully record the basic model it is on, any initial config and the prompts it was given.

I’ve watched most of ghost in the shell. I do like the characters especially the tachikoma robots and their philosophical segments. It’s been a pretty long time though so I’m not sure if I could say exactly what the show is about. The main force moving the story forward is government conspiracy and terrorism but I think the most interesting parts really have to do with trying claim your own space in the world.

It feels maybe similar to snake eater. The story gets very convoluted but there are a lot of shining moments in both that are great. In ghost in the shell most of the main characters have full mechanical bodies with I think only one non-android. Bato doesn’t really need to eat but still enjoys it. The major chooses a more slender female frame even though Bato argues a bigger frame is better suited for fighting, the tachikoma at one point decide not to fully sync data to maintain their own individuality.

I’m definitely more interested in the characters then the story but that might just be true for most things. I don’t think I’m saying anything interesting there. I do like how the trailer looks a lot. I will probably not see it in theaters but it is something to look forward to. My last theater going experience was soured only slightly by some AI generated ad and I’d like to avoid that. I think it was real actors but with their mouths moved to the script. It was gross in a weird way.

Two of the jackery solar panels came today.

The last time I watched a bunch of videos on solar power I ended up getting a bunch of silver and gold video suggestions.

The solar panels are easy to use and come with 5v USB and USB c outputs in addition to the main outputs to connect to the battery / generator.

I need to review the basic components of a solar generator. Also the problems of I want power during an outage and I want to offset my energy costs from the grid are two very different problems.

In any case if possible I’d like to be able to switch off of the grid during an outage and have roof panels charge a battery. This requires a charge regulator + battery. That’s what the jackery solar generator is and it also handles AC out which is also its own thing. But because it handles the charge regulation I think I just need a switch to send DC out to the jackery power station?

It is definitely nice though that the solar panels can be used independently of the power station for simple DC charging like laptops and phones. The ease of use comes at an extra cost though.

Jackery HomePower 3600 Plus

https://www.harborfreight.com/7-amp-solar-charge-regulator-96728.html

It sounded to me like openai pulled out of the deal because the revenue didn’t cover the costs (couldn’t turn a profit)? Money sounds like it might be tougher for them now.